Nearing one-year anniversary of arrest, Scottie Scheffler makes peculiar color choice
Nearing one-year anniversary of arrest, Scottie Scheffler makes peculiar color choice
We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of Scottie Scheffler's outrageous arrest at the 2024 PGA Championship and it almost seems like the milestone has been on the mind of the world's No. 1 golfer this week.
Either that or Scheffler stumbled into the coincidence of all hilarious coincidences Wednesday at Quail Hollow.
Because according to Golf.com's Claire Rogers, when Scheffler arrived for his practice round wearing burnt orange, it was only the second time in the last calendar year he's been spotted sporting the color. The first time was his jailhouse jumpsuit in Louisville.
Check it out and judge for yourself.
Now, it's true Scheffler is a Texas native who played collegiately for the Longhorns, so it's not like burnt orange is a foreign color for him. But the timing is just too much to ignore.
Here's hoping he doesn't have to do his warm-up stretches in lockup before any of his rounds this weekend.
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